Quotes About Value

It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value...

L'integrità è un valore neutro. Anche le iene hanno una loro integrità. Sono iene allo stato puro.

In effetti quando faceva compere in un grande magazzino i vestiti e gli utensili che non le sembravano connotanti risultavano sempre i più costosi nel loro genere. Chiaramente, se eri abbastanza ricco, potevi comprare la trasparenza.

The radical otherness of birds is integral to their beauty and their value. They are always among us but never of us. They're the other world-dominating animals that evolution has produced, and their indifference to us ought to serve as a chastening reminder that we're not the measure of all things.

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.

Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.

Life is precious, Jacob thought. The most important of all thoughts, and the most obvious, and the most difficult to remember to have. How different my life would have been if I could have had that thought before I was forced to.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What so great about feeling and dreaming?

I could write more, but that is all that matters.

se nada importa, não há nada a salvar

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good." "And

It's better to lose something than never to have had

It was the last, which made it the most precious.

A Lutsk ti ho comprato dei libri, le disse Yankel chiudendo la porta a prima sera, chiudendo fuori il resto del mondo. Non possiamo permetterceli, ribatté lei afferrando la borsa pesante. Domani dovrò restituirli. Non possiamo permetterci neanche di non averli. Qual è la cosa che possiamo permetterci di meno: averli o non averli? A mio parere, perdiamo in ogni caso. Meglio perdere con i libri.

If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

But not even to save your life?" "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

This is what my grandmother meant when she said, "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

Hükümdarl??a verilen en büyük hizmetler, tutkular?n? kar??lamakta gösterilen eksiklikle tart?ya vurulunca, ne de çabuk deÄŸerden düÅŸüyorlar.

But as to honour, justice, wisdom, and learning, they should not be taxed at all; because they are qualifications of so singular a kind, that no man will either allow them in his neighbour or value them in himself.